The situation in the conflict in Ukraine is changing “drastically” and Russia is getting closer to achieving its “priority goals”, the president said Vladimir Putin in his end-of-year press conference, in which he said he was ready for “negotiations and compromises” with Kiev. “The peace plan is on the table, you can take it or leave it,” declared the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbánupon arriving at the Patriots pre-summit. Yesterday the Ukrainian president declared: “We have no strength to take back Donbass.”
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Zelensky: Putin is crazy, he loves to kill
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Zelensky responds to Putin’s duel proposal: “Idiot”
00:08
Zelensky: Putin is crazy, he loves to kill
“I think Putin is a very big danger for everyone, dangerous because he doesn’t care about anything. He’s crazy, I think. And I think he thinks so too. He loves to kill.” Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky declared this in the press conference at the end of his speech at the EU summit.
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Zelensky: “Trump is a strong man, I want him on our side”
“I think Donald Trump is a strong man and I want him on my side.” The Ukrainian president says so Volodymyr Zelenskyat a press conference in Brussels on the sidelines of the European Council. “I would like to discuss with him in more detail – he continues – I think it is very important”, given that “he was not in this war, because he was not president” when the Russian invasion of Ukraine began. “It’s understandable. I hope he will understand me, because”, regardless of everyone’s past, “businessman, politician… we are simply people and we have the same emotions”, he concludes.
23:55
Zelensky responds to Putin’s duel proposal: “Idiot”
The Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky responds to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s proposal for a “duel” between Russia’s new medium-range ballistic missile, Oreshnik, and Western-supplied air defense systems over Kiev. “People are dying and he thinks it’s ‘interesting’… Idiot,” X Zelensky wrote in his profile, as Ukrainska Pravda reports.
In the post, the Ukrainian president attaches the video in which Putin is seen proposing a “high-tech duel”: “Let them select one target, say Kiev, and concentrate all their air defense forces there, and we – he states – we will carry out an Oreshnik attack. And let’s see what happens.”
